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Community Meeting with Philippe Douste-Blazy, UN Special Advisor on Innovative Financing for Development
June 22, 2009
June 24, 2009
Global Health Council
Washington, D.C.
The concept of innovative financing mechanisms for development and health has become an increasingly hot topic given the shortfall in resources needed to reach the Millennium Development Goals. Last month in Paris, the Leading Group on Solidarity Levies to Fund Development and the High-Level Task Force on Innovative International Financing for Health Systems met to consider such mechanisms.
The Global Health Council hosted a community meeting with Philippe Douste-Blazy, UN Special Advisor on Innovative Financing for Development and chair of the board of UNITAID. Douste-Blazy gave the community an overview of the Leading Group and the High-Level Task Force and recent recommendations from their last meetings. Several proposals include the expansion of airline solidarity levies, the feasibility of implementing a Currency Transaction Tax on the world's strongest currencies and the launch of a new International Financing Facility (IFF) for Health Systems. These proposals are now being considered by countries in the lead up to the G8 in Italy in July.
Douste-Blazy is a cardiologist by training, and served as France's Minister for Health (1993-1995 and 2004-2005), Minister of Culture (1995-1997) and Foreign Minister (2005-2007).
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contributed by Liza Nanni on 25 May 2009
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